Chap. IV. The HIS T 0 R Y of the PuRITANs; 561 prdbyte~y and hearty affeCtion for epifcopal government. It was his King . "- '1 r. d h h ll ' ' I h fh Id b · Charles II. maJnty's p ea1ure, an t e c ance or s, t 1at t ere on e a creatiOn 1660 . in all faculties of fuch as had fuffcred for the royal caufe, and h~d been ~. ejeCted from the univerlity by the vilitors in 1648.. Accordingly between feventy and eighty maflers of arts were created this year, among whom (fays tbe Oxford hiftorian) fume that had not been fufferers thruft themfelves into the croud for their money ; others, yet few, were gentlemen, and created by the fa<our of the chancellor's letters only; eighteen were created batchelors of divinity, feven ty doCtors of divinity, twenty-two doCtors of phylic, be fid es doctors of laws. Tbe creations in the uni- K ennet's verfity of Cambridge were yet more numerous. On Miijummer day, aChron. p. grace palfec.l in the univedity in favour of fome candidates for degrees. 332 • Augujl 2 the king fent letters to Cambridge for creating nine or ten perfans, doCtors of divinity ; and on the fifth of September there were creat- Ib. p. 25 r. eel by virtue of his majdly's mandamus no lefs than feventy-one doCtors of divinity, nine doctors of civil law, five doCtors of phylic, and five bachelors of divinity. So that within the compafs of little more than fix months, the univerfities conferred one hundred and fifty doCtors of divinity degrees, and as many more in the other faculties. Some of thefe were deferving perfom, but the names of them are no where to be found but in the univerfity regifiers. Had the parli~ment vifitors in 1648, or 0. Cromwelf in his proteCtorfhip, made fo free with the honours of the univerfities, they might juflly have been fuppofed to countenance the 11/iterate, and proftitute the honour of the· two great luminaries of this kingdom ; but his maje!ty's promoting fuch numbers in fo fhort a time by a royal mandamus, without enquirir.g into their qualifications, or infifting upon their performing any academical exercife, rnuft be covered with a vail, becaufe it was for the fervice of the churd1. In the rnidft of thefe promotions, the marquis of Hertford chancellor of the univerfity of Oxford, died, and was fucceeded by Sir Edward Hyde, now lord chancellor of England, and created about this time earl of Clarendon; He was inftalled Nov. I 5, and continued in this office till he retired into France in the year I 667. Thefe promotions made way for filling up the vacancies in cathedrals; Vacancies in Jufy 5, Dr. Killigrew, ']ones, Doughty, and Bujby, were in !tailed pre- w hedrals bendaries of Wejlrninjhr; and wi th in a mouth or Jix weeks four more.fiKIIed "cph. dd d I h · · f 'J 1 en. ron. were a e . n t e mon tns o uty and Augufl, all the dignities in thep .• 79 . cathedral of. ~t. Paul's .w~ re filled up, bei ng upwards of twenty. July Ib. p. 2 0 4. I 3 twelve divines were mltal!ed prebendarits in the cathedral of Canterbury; and before the end of 1he year, all the dignities in the cathedrals of Durham, Chejler, Litchjield, Brijlol, Hereford, Worcefler, Gloucejler, &c. VoL. n. 4 c were
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